St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-17

stretch of nine miles and return, and a
heat for home Of ten miles. At every turn,
and i'm every weather, except during the
first part of the run to leeward, when
the Maytieower sailed better than the
Volunteer, the latter beat her opponent.
The outcome of the days race was that
the Volunteer was chosen by the Amer
ica'Scup committee, who Judged the
event from the flagship Electra, to meet
the Thistle in the International contest.
The Thistle was out too, but her hand
ling was such during the first half of
the race as to give no idea OF what she
she could do.After that the Scotch yacht
was evidently sailed for all she was
worth, with foul bottom, and under
the conditions was OutSailed by both
the Mayfiower and Volunteer. The
official table of figures made by the
judges was as follows:
Volunteers start, IL hours, II minutes, 81
seconds; finish, 8 hours. 81 minutes as 10
seconds; elapsed time. hours, 20 minutes,
40 l-5 seconds.
Mayfowers start, IL hours, Ia minutes, 43
seconds; elapsed time, hours, Sc minutes,
81 As seconds.
The yachts started with twenty-five
mile breeze over their sterns, the Vol
unteer having nearly mile the best of
it for a short time. The Mayflower de-
creased the lead, but on getting her
spinaker Out of the wind, and later hav-
ing her balloon jib topsail split from foot
to leach, she lost ground, and was after
wards left behind. The Thistle was a
mile away on the course when the others
made the start. She had on only a jib
besides her mainSail at first. but after a
time ran out her spinaker and a working
topSail. From the time that the Thistle
put out her spinaker, just as the Volun-
teer passed her she was practically in
the race. Whether OF not she was
always sailed
FOR WHAT SHE WAS WORTH,
is very wide question. On the first
run the Volunteer beat the other two
easily. The yachts rounded the tug
Haviland, which formed the first stake.
SO: Volunteer, II hours, II minutes, 4S
minutes; MayfOwer. II hours, 90 min
minutes, 80 seconds. Then the
contestants. following signals shown
on the Electra, came up close
into the wind and stretched over
toward the New Jersey shore, to round
the Electra off ASbury Park. On this
reach the Thistle hauled down her top
sail and hOisted her topmast. The May
flower pulled down her club t0pSail, but
the Volunteer held her big topsaii aIoft.
The Volunteer went steadily ahead of
the other boats and headed about for the
minutes, 43 seconds, while the
Mayfower took until II hours. 20
minutes, 81 seconds and the Thistle |
hour, minutes. On the return to the
Haviland there was pretty good chance
to see what the Thistle could do with
the Mayflower if she were sincerely
sailed as she seemed to be. Both yes
sells had their tOpmastS hoiSted. and
both were sailing under mainSail. fore
stay sail and jib. The MayfiOwer plainly
did the better work OF the two, as the
time of rounding the Haviland buoy for
the second time shows. The Volunteer
retained tOpsail and whether that was
the cause or not, she left the MaytlOwer
and Thistle aStern as though she had
some other business than that in the
company. The Haviland buoy was
rounded the second time in the time:
Volunteer, hour, so minutes, 80 sec
OndS; MayfiOwer, 1 hour, 56 minutes, Is
seconds; Thistle, hour, So minutes, ID
seconds. Always before this the Vol
unteer had Out-pointed and out-footed
both the Mayfiower and Thistle
But if she beat them in running and
reaching, her beating for home showed
that she was even better at that sort of
business IMAM anything she mad cone
before. AT laying into the wind and
going through the water at the same
time with wind SO strong that she
could not carry a club topsail, the
Volunteer left her sister and her third
cOusiOn so far in the rear that the judges
determined there was no need of
another race to find out who should
meet the Thistle in the match of the
year, and picked her out in their minds
before two tacks had been made And
everybody said they were right. There
was nothing of the open question about
it. The Volunteer did by far the best
work. The Thistle, being outpointed and
generally run away from by the May
flower, still stuck pluckily to the course
she had started in On and finished
minutes, SO Is seconds after the May
flower. Every racer got a grand salute
from the excursion boats and the steam
yachts.